Wednesday 2 September 2009

Gmail offline

Has anyone suffered from the disrupted gmail last night? I did. For more info:

http://www.gulfnews.com/business/Internet/10345538.html

It's impressive how reliant we are on Gmail for news and information, at least I am! What about you?

11 comments:

rosh said...

Yes. I panicked -- felt I was floating into the dark outer space / universe :)

hemlock said...

lol! it was total anarchy... you shouldve seen twitter and facebook...
VIRTUAL PANIC!

it's SCARY how dependent we've become on technology. one of these days, i'll pack up my bags and move into the mountains.
where there will be no electricity - only thuraya.

Digital Nomad said...

Salaam :)
I hardly use email, in comparison with other people...yet I felt it! It was like the world came to an end. The reliance on it for the simplest things (like retrieving forgotten passwords) made me realize I need to enable IMAP and start reading my email via a desktop client. Heaven help if that fails for a few hours!

Dubai Jazz said...

I have no idea what you guys are talking about?!

ayla said...

I heard about this on the news. Fortunately for me by the time it had gone down, i was done and dusted with my gmailing for the day :O) muhahaha!

But it is amazing how just a few hours of no gmail can send us into panic, sadness, fear, anxiety! Madness really.

soreal said...

in a way, am like dubai jazz, mail may have been down, reader was not which was quiet enough to keep me happy :)

BuJ said...

soreal, what would you do if gmail was working and reader disabled for 6 hrs?

DoTs... said...

oh if u were on twitter it became a "trending topic" in no time ! :p

soreal said...

am a resourceful Gemini with a highly active imagination... nothing is indispensable to me ... and there is always something waiting for me to do :P

BuJ said...

DOTS.. what's twitter?

Soreal.. ok enough ! you sound like a female peacock! tut tut!

soreal said...

peacock?!!!

would you prefer it if i said i ll spend the time crying my misfortune..


typical men :P